Description
#77040
Inuit Art: Kullik
Artist: Charlie Okpik
1.905Size: 8 3/4” long, 3/ 4″ high, 5 3/4” wide
Community: Gjoa Haven Year: 1996 Stone: Serpentine
Qulliq- Oil Lamp- Kudlik ᖁᓪᓕᖅ
_seal-oil, blubber or soapstone lamptraditional oil lamp used by Arctic peoples, including the Inuit.
This characteristic type of oil lamp provided warmth and light in the harsh Arctic environment where
there was no wood and where the sparse inhabitants relied almost entirely on seal oil or on whale blubber.
This lamp was the single most important article of furniture for the Inuit peoples in their dwellings.[6]
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